Madison is a bioengineering researcher with a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Rhode Island. Her doctoral research focused on leveraging multimodal MRI and brain network analysis to improve diagnostic and treatment strategies for psychosis and schizophrenia. She applied artificial intelligence and network control theory to investigate the underlying pathophysiology of brain disorders.
During her PhD, Madison also identified important sources of variability in neuroimaging data, including differences in brain atlas parcellations associated with MRI field strength and connectome variations between 3T and 7T acquisitions. Her research interests center on AI-driven approaches for MRI preprocessing and harmonization, as well as advanced statistical methods to support clinically meaningful insights.
Madison has authored three first-author publications, with an additional manuscript currently under review. She was a fellow in the Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program and has received multiple awards for her research presentations.
Outside of research, Madison enjoys hiking with her dog, coaching and working out at her CrossFit gym, and playing slow-pitch softball with her teammates.
- PhD in Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
- BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
Education & Training
- Fellow, Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program
Madison Lewis, Wenlong Jiang, Nicholas Theis, Joshua Cape, Konasale Prasad. Classification of psychosis spectrum disorders using graph convolutional networks with structurally constrained functional connectomes. Neural Networks 181, 106771 (2025).
Madison Lewis, Nicholas Theis, Nidhi Girish, Konasale Prasad. Determining the Atlas Correspondence of Desikan-Killiany-Tourville and Glasser MMP1 Atlases across Different Magnetic Field Strengths. Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2025).
Madison Lewis, Tales Santini, Nicholas Theis, Brendan Muldoon, Katherine Dash, Matcheri Keshavan, Konasale Prasad. Modular architecture and resilience of structural covariance networks in first-episode antipsychotic-naive psychoses. Sci Rep 13, 7751 (2023).
